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I'IIRAMZNEIVTON BERRY, OF MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI, ASSIGN OF ONE-HALF I TO MIGAJAI-I F. BERRY, OF SAME PLACE.

PLANING AND SIZING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,659, dated May 19, 1891.

Application filed June 18, 1890. Serial No. 856,017. (No model.)

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To all whom it may concern: a horizontal table-surface G, upon which the Be it known that I, HIRAM NEWTON BERRY, edge of the board rests in being fed past the of Meridian, in the county of Lauderdale and planer-disk, and above this table-surfaceis State of Mississippi, have invented a new and arranged a vertical back-plate II, which holds useful Improvement in Planing and Sizing the board up to the planer-disk, and which Machines, of which the following is a specifiback plate is made adjustable to or from the cation. planer-disk, as follows:

The object of my invention is to provide a II H H H are four screw-shafts whose machine adapted to receive the lumber from threaded portions are tapped through thread- 10 the saw-mill on live-rollers and to reduce the ed holes in the vertical plate H, and whose same to exact transverse sizes and plane the ends swivel in the vertical fixed plates H H surface of thesame as it passes through. so that the shafts cannot move endwise. On

The invention is designed for use in conthe outer ends of the screw-shafts are keyed nection with any saw-mill sawing green or four gear-wheels IF H H H and in mesh 15 dry lumber. It is also intended for sizing with them all a central gear-wheel I'Iflhavand planing dry lumber of any Width or thicking a crank H, by turning which an equal ness, reducing it to uniform size, and may be motion is transmitted to all four of the screwused as a separate machine disconnected from shafts, and the vertical back plate H is made any saw-mill. to advance to or recede from the planer-disk 20 Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a side in a perfectly true and parallel position elevation. Fig. 3 is a side elevation from the thereto. opposite side to that shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 Just before the board is delivered to the is an end elevation. Fig. 5 is a vertical transplaner-disk itis fed between a plane or smooth verse section throughline 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. roller d, Figs. 1 and 4, set vertically in the 2 5 6 is a vertical transverse section through line plate II, and a corrugated roller I, which is 6 6 of Fig. 1. Fig, 7 is a face view of the set in a spring-seated frame consisting of a planer-disk. Fig. 8 is acentral section of the bracket 1 having a horizontal stem sursame, and Figs. 9 and 10 are detail views in rounded by a spiral spring 1 which causes perspective of the planer-knives. the corrugated roller to be advanced against 0 In the drawings, A A represent two horithe board with an elastic pressure. This cor- 8o zontal parallel beams, which constitute the rugated roller is actively driven, and serves main frame of the machine, and between to feed the board past the planer. For this which is journaled the horizontal feed-rollers purpose this roller has upon the lower end of B. which carry the lumber through the maits shaft a bevel-gear I", which meshes with 5 chine. These feed-rollers have at their ends and receives motion from a bevel-gear 1 on chain-wheels B, which are geared together the end of the shaft of thefriction-wheel, and driven by a chain 0. which drives the main feed-rollers.

D is the main shaft or driving-mandrel of In constructing the planer-disk E its outer the vertical planer-disk E. This shaft is jourperiphery is beveled or recessed upon its face,

40 naled at a a. in a side frame A and carries a (see Fig. 8,) and cutter-knives E of apeculiar 9o band-pulley I), through which power is transshape, are set therein obliquely and alternate mitted to the inachine from abelt connecting with cutters E The cutter-knives E (see with any suitable motor. On the outer end Fig. 9) have a straight cutting-edge e, and also of this planer-mandrel is a small friction-pula right angular or curved cutting-edge e.

45 ley c, which is in frictional contact with a This knife 1SSGI, in a slat obliquely to the large friction-wheel F, fixed upon a short plane of the disk with the curved edge e eX- shaft F, arranged parallel with the mandrel tending outwardly from the center and proand hearing a chain-wheel F Fig. 3, which jecting at the space where the outer face of imparts motion to the chain 0 of the feedthe disk is recessed or cut away. This part- 50 rollers. Just in front of the planer-disk E is e of the knife first meets and cuts away wise of the grain.

any inequality in the lumber, reducing it to a uniform size or thickness, while the inner or straight blade c of the knife acts as a surfacer and planes the board smooth. In other words, the knife cuts both upon the face and the periphery of the disk. These knives have slots in their rear portions, by which they are permitted to be fastened in the disk by means of set'screws. The cutters E are chisel-shaped, and their cutting-edges are at right angles to the plane of the disk. These cutters alternate with E, and are also secured by means of set-screws which pass through their slots. These latter cutters serve to assist in cutting off the inequalities of the boards, in order to bring them to a uniform transverse dimension. To make the function of the peculiar shape and arrangement of these two cutters more clear, I would state that the edge e of cutter E, op erating in the plane of the face of the disk, cleaves or splits the wood in a direction length- In order to counteract the tendency of the cleavage to follow the grain of the wood, the part c and cutter E whose cutting-edges are at right angles with reference to the cutting-edge e, are arranged to operate in advance of the said edge e and sever the wood across the grain, and hence determine the length of the cleavage made by said edge e, and prevent further splitting. The part 6 also cuts away such thickness of chip as the part a could not deal with. The other cutter E acting in the circle of the cutting-edge c of cutter E, prevents the choking of the cutter E by doing the principal part of the cutting transversely to the grain necessary to effect the reduction of the lumber to proper size. The center of the planer-disk is recessed, and in this recess lies a bed-guide J, Fig. 8, of circular shape, which is supported upon the table below. As the lumber approaches the bed-guide the cutters take off the inequalities, and, these being cut off, the bed-guide lies against the trued face of the board and guides the board straight to the spring-seated vertical bearing-roller K, Fig. l, on the other side of the plane-disk. The lumber now passes to a second planedisk M, Figs. 5 and 6, which rests in a horizontal plane above the board and serves to dress the top edge of thelumber. This planerdisk is constructed substantially like the first, and it is fixed to a shaft M, which swivels in a horizontal plate M and which plate is made vertically adjustable, as follows:

N N N N are four vertical screw-shafts whose screw-threads are tapped through screw-threaded holes in the vertically-adjustable plate that carries the cutter. These screw-shafts swivel in fixed plates below and also in a fixed horizontal plate N above. To the screw-shafts above the plate N are fixed separate chain-wheels N which are geared together by a chain N and one of said wheels is provided with a crank 12, by turning which all of the screw-shafts are rotated, and the plate M with the planer-disk, is adjusted up or down. To impart the necessary rotary motion to the planer-disk and still permit it to be adjusted vertically, the shaft M is connected to a bevel-gear-O (or a band-pulley) above the plate N, which bevel-gear is connected to the shaft by a feather-and-groove or equivalent connection, (see Fig. 6,) that causes the two to rotate together but permits the shaft to rise and fall through the bevelgear. This bevel-wheel O meshes with another one O on a horizontal shaft which at its outer end has a band-pulley, by which it is driven.

To resist the strain of the cutting action of the upper planer-disk, a bearing-surface in the form of a roller 0', Fig. 6, or plate is arranged upon the side of the board where the knives leave the board. The motion of the disk keeps the board pressed against this bearing.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new is- 1. The combination of the rollers B,having chain-wheels upon their ends, the chain C, surrounding the same, the main shaft or mandrel D, bearing the planer-disk at one end and a friction-pulley at the other, the shaft F, having a friction-wheel at one end engaging the friction-pulley of the mandrel, a chainwheel F driving the chain, a laterally-yielding and vertically-arranged feed-roller I, and a bevel-gear I 1 connecting the same with the shaft F, substantially as shown and described.

2. The planer-disk E, having its outer ed e recessed or beveled, and knives haviug a straight edge e and a rightangular edge e, the said knives being set with their straight edges substantially parallel to the face of the disk and with the right-angular edge projecting into the cut-away portion of the outer periphery of the disk, substantially as shown and described.

3. The planer-disk E, having its outer edge recessed or beveled, knives E, having a rightangular edge projecting into the recessed space, and chisel-shaped knives E alternating with the knives E on the face of the disk substantially as shown and described.

4E. The combination of the planer-disk M the shaft M, carrying the same, the adjust able plate M having a bearing for the said shaft and disk, screw-shafts for adjusting the plate M and a toothed gear connected to the shaft M, substantially as described, to rotate it and permit the shaft to slide through it as set forth.

HIRAM NEWTON BERRY. Witnesses:

S. B. HOLT, W. M. STONE. 

